My War Horse journey is now complete. It started at the world premiere, then award season and now Joey the horse comes to Blu-ray in a 4 disc combo set. This movie holds up remarkably well and gets better with each successive viewing. I can’t say that about most movies.
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How do you create an alien invasion movie on a minimal budget? Easy, make them invisible. That’s the basic premise behind Director Chris Gorak the Darkest Hour. Is it me or is using camouflage shields cheating? I mean come on, if you are going to invade us, do it straight up.
The movie works well as a low budget, sci-fi survival story. There are some interesting ideas here that are executed fairly well. Emile Hirsch is one of those actors that I would like to see more of. He was fantastic in the unfairly maligned, Speed Racer. He received great review for Into The Wild and Milk, he seemed hot,
then he just disappeared for awhile. He does a fine job in this as the optimistic go to guy for a ragtag group of survivors. Where this movie made its mistake is releasing it on the big screen first. It sets a different expectation level for what a sci-fi movie should be.
Grade: C
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Life’s a happy song whenever the Muppets are around. Studio executives should take note; this is the kind of product you get when you put a film in the hands of someone who has obvious passion for what they are doing. Jason Segel championed this movie for years and it’s clear that everyone involved has a love of all things muppets.
Grade: A
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Paul W.S. Anderson’s unique take on The Three Musketeers is now available on Blu-ray.
Grade: C
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I know many people don’t like Sam Worthington and I’m one of them. Worthington is trying to prove that he’s not the one-dimensional actor that we all think he is. Lately he’s been doing some interesting off the radar projects like Man on A Ledge and now the serial killer mystery Texas Killing Fields.
Grade: B-
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The Double is a brand new straight to video (forgive me, I forgot what the PC term is these days) movie with an all star cast and high quality production values. These days don’t be scared of the StV tag, embrace it. The Double is an espionage mystery with twists turns and beautiful settings that are not in exotic locations.
Grade: B-
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If I did a top ten list last year, Real Steel would be on it. I first watched footage of the movie way back in March when it debuted at Cinemacon. At the time, there was nothing about that 20-minutes that wowed me. The only impression I had was, “Wow, they actually made Rock Em Sock Em Robots – The Movie.” This is a movie where watching a trailer or scenes out of context does it a disservice. As individual parts, the movie is average at best, taken as a whole – it is fun and surprisingly emotional.
Grade: A+
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